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draw in your "Pipes" Then click on it and open object for detail Then go to material tab. Then click on "pipe" and change material to a color of your choosing. Look for catalog under main core catalog library - MATERIALS - COLORS easy peasy.

But you may need on 16" centers for structure and local building codes. Specially if hurricanes impact your area. Want better insulation: Thicker insulation layer: use 2x6 studs. OR keep 2x4 wall and use Spray Foam closed cell plus added benefit of less air loss which is also a good thing. or many ways to improve R value of wall - Talk to good builder and/or maybe engineer who specializes in improving home energy efficiencies. Heck foaming under roof and putting attic into condition space helps AC as it is not sitting in super hot attic.

I do not know without looking thru catalogs to see what they have. the large Grey framing doohickey has to go. maybe make upper smaller by having a some structure between the top of door and bottom of window and use same brick? I dunno this is what program is for - try something, like it or hate it keep at it until you are happy.

I do not like the window above as it looks like a door. This upper window is distracting to whatever you choose for the door IMHO. Maybe adding a large ceiling mounted hanging light that hangs in middle of that window may help but secure with chains when the wind blows to prevent it from hitting sides and window.

Well I think you need to draw it like it is made with framing etc. So create a new a wall type with sheetrock, tile or stone or whatever will be on vertical exterior and internal surfaces; might be nothing on inisde. Include studs as main layer 2x4 or 2x6 or whatever you choose. draw in half walls to the height you want (check tub manufacturer instructions) less the thickness of whatever you are putting on the top. Next I would add in a custom counter top on top with or without overhang all depends on design. Cut hole in it per KOHLER install instructions to suit the tub you chose. Might do counter in 1-3 pieces to make life easier. Then insert tub into hole and the lip sits on top of countertop material you drew by adjusting the distance from floor to bottom of to suit tub instructions (most require a gap so it can move when filled with water. NExt up is type and location faucets. Deck, wall or floor or get fancy have ceiling mounted shower head. But whatever you do make sure it fits in space. Now if you see framing inside tube your half walls are not located properly for that tub. Instructions are easy to find on internet - Go to Kohler website punching the model number you are looking at in library and they have all sorts of docs you can review. Designing things how they are made is much better in long run as you are checking to see if it is possible and have a good understanding how contractor and subs will build it. So less questions during construction and more work being done. Locating things on prints lets subs know what other subs need for space or what not. Example Faucet local - Framers will ensure no studs in area you want faucet.

Yeah but purpose of computer drafting is you can be super accurate and find any issue before as we say the steel or in this case Wood is cut. If you designed and drew it and room ended up as 16'-11 3/16" then that is what it is and that can affect other rooms and roof etc by just saying round it up to 17ft. Better is to move the wall to what you want for dim. So click wall and it will show temp dims back to normally framing of other walls. Just click this dim and change the number to what you want. Watch what happens as you may have to ALIGN other walls or move things but now you have it drawn and can be dimension as you want 17ft and see what it affects. Design to exact numbers will reduce ON SITE problems. Like why does my cabinet not fit?. Sink does not fit? NOt enough room in front of toilet Door Molding does not fit so it has to be trimmed. So I do not suggest rounding - just design what you want.

yes use custom backsplash if you have curves in designs then change material to picture of your tile. Might have to edit tile material file to get sizes correct but that is not hard. IF all vertical and horizontal lines in layout then use cabinet partitions and lay against wall and adjust dims same thing with material. What you need to do is find something to stick to wall that you can change material of and then create material files of your custom tiles. Which is not hard if you can get good picture files of tile in large pattern so HD can apply and crop as required since you can adjust size inside material option window. SO I did 6x36 wood look floor tile for my house. Went to manufacturer and HD etc websites to find a good picture of large area say 10ftx8ft of tile laid out. Then copied and created new tile material in my library for this. Crate one 0 degree layout and another 90 degree depending on which room it was going in. But I created size of block to match picture actual tile size laid out so when HD painted it to floor it was scale. I concentrated editing the TEXTURE tab in the material screen as that is what looks realistic and what I was showing my customer - THE WIFE. screen shot of material screen for one custom tile I made.

Make a base cabinet which is your floating cabinet. Open cabinet options Adjust Cabinet height to topof caoutertops to what ever yours will be (not from floor but from bottom of cabinet. Then set "FLOOR TO BOTTOM" to whatever you want. Might want to delete toe kick and then adjust front elevation of doors and drawers. Simple really and well lots of things can be off the floor

HD creates backups of plans maybe you still have that hidden somewhere and can recover?

It thinks the wall in question is an exterior wall so maybe room is not closed in yet? IT warns you when youhave exterior wall snot to have DRYWALL on outside since well that is not a good thing when it rains. Now there is a button thingy that when you have wall highlighted it will swap interior and exterior wall surfaces. PS why do you have plaster under the drywall? Is this an old plaster wall where they have studs and then put on horizontal lathe boards for plaster to "KEY" into? or something newer with a hardi-board on studs for plaster to be applied to? I have never seen plaster applied to studs is all.

another way is to create a "RAILING" wall and choose solid wall since then it will insert a cap on top. Or go to Pony wall and select normal wall for bottom and glass shower wall for top. Many ways to do things and I hate to tell ya as I read your other thread when someone mentioned it: much of these basics are covered in the HD website videos and support and answers are there already. Chief Architect Training Videos (homedesignersoftware.com) Knowledge Base | Home Designer (homedesignersoftware.com) Getting Started Resources | Home Designer (homedesignersoftware.com) Online Seminars and Training | Home Designer (homedesignersoftware.com)

where are you when you first select rug? 2d or 3d world? Ned to set something down on floor first torepresent rug in 3d and then "PAINT" rug you want onto it. I have used shelves and 3d boxes and set dims to whatever rug is say 48"wide x 72" long x 3/8" thick and then set bottom elevation to 0" above floor.

put 2 singles next 2 each other. as I have yet to find dual outlets in 2 gang j-box setup.

I doubt you will be able to since not setup as a Home Designer Door but more likely just a 3d object no different than a piece of furniture or 3d box shape. Maybe install a normal HD garage door and then try to PAINTwhat this one looks like onto it? but make sur eyou get one that is a single panel and not made from multiple panels

yes I forgot about that check box was the way to do it. Been a while since I messed with Doors as I jusgt set my default an go withit.

insert TALL CABINET and customize as you need to fit space and have doors, shelves etc as you desire

grap eye dropper and select the color of the I am guessing grey walls you want to place in the catherdral ends. then you get a spray can - Select either componen or room to put spry can on portion you want with this new color and it will change. Check HLP on spray can to get more info on option...

set them as exterior doors and modify ext casing,trim etc to be what the interior is and then color as you like.

doing in computer model is one thing. But how will you do in real life? as upper window need structure to rest on and will have nailing flange etc maybe get an artist to just paint under the windows the look you desire?

That drawing from county will not be to scale as it is just a sketch to give you an idea of dims of house. also when they measure house they tend to round it up. heck you could just draw walls at lenghths they show starting at one corner and working your way around until done. last wall might not connect to first wall due to their errors but then you can figure out how to correct. If you want to redraw your house - measure exterior at foundation and then interior rooms. from that you can figure out wall thickness and create a decent home plan of what you have.

yeah slab foundations are a PIA here in MS we do pretty much same thing. Throw some red clay down and then put up some form boards and dig beams under load walls and where you want plumbing to be and electric if it ends up in floor somewhere. HD just does not have many tools for editing foundations. Once you add a garage and drop its floor down and/or have brick wall - ARggggggggggggg. Never draws brick ledge right in some tigh areas or where you end the brick wall on corner and have maybe siding or stucco on other side of corner. With garages it insists on adding the stem wall even though some people build the garage without them and just account for drop in framing or have a lower ceiling.... Or add a floor and program wants to make floor for second out of concrete argggg - just never gets the frming right once you do a slab foundation Sometims all this automation in the software is battle to make what you want. Like attic walls do not get me started on that. Hide one another pops up... no need for attic walls frames support roof how they need to etc.. Well I know I did not help much but I have had similar issues with slabs...

I see recessed panels in library after many library updates. Under: CORE/ ARCHITECTURAL/ CABINET DOORS, DRAWERS, AND PANELS, DOORS: aT THE BOTTOM OF LIST. also I think it is under the cabinet dialog as an option: yes it is on mine: choices for cabinet doorsin editing cbinet dialog DEFAULT SLAB FRAMED Recessed Panel Pretty much same for drawer fronts.

option when you add a floor to make it BLANK. Choose this and it has no walls just turns attic into a floor add walls if you want stairs can be added etc. PS when the dialog opens up for building this new floor I always click the HELP button as they have 3 options and I forget what they do and the help explains it all.

thanks, that helps one more question. how can I make my own Template file which has all my own defaults? I have a few generic plans right now with nothing in it but everything pre-set how I like it. Including preferences and Defaults. So I open one and SAVE AS for new Plans. Question 1: how can I add my own custom templates to the DASHBOARD start up menu and make them an option? Question 2: Any way to bring in a new template into existing plan that will change everything to this new template? There are so many options in the Defaults one can spend hours setting it up. So show plan in 3d with one template. Then click button or something and change the template and show again in 3D but will all new cabinet doors, hardware, colors etc. without having to do it individually or changing defaults. Then you do that and you want to go back. ARGGGG Work around now is a bunch of plans for same project but each has different colors, flooring etc. I want this as it is easier to have 2-4 different generic starting plans for decision maker to look at for a starting point to where we can customize.

I have some small structures or what not (house, car garage, garage, pool house etc etc) each drawn in their own plan to keep things from getting messed up while working on one. Now I want to combine them all so I can put them on the lot and have an overall drawing to show what it will look like. I do not see a command in HD2023 IMPORT menu. Import has every other file type on earth it seems but its own. yeah I can see why it may be Pain due to default settings different etc. but let me handle that just force what ever is imported as element that looks back on its own file. So to make changes I change the original file and then update the big one. OR not but I do not want to have to have 1 plan with 4 buildings on it as doing roofs and foundations can be dangerous as can mess up the other out buildings. HELP or make add to next update please